On 2 June the Leningrad City Court, presided over by A. V. Karlov, heard the case of Abram Mendelevich TRESKUNOV, charged under Article 70 (RSFSR Criminal Code). Treskunov was arrested on 13 March while attempting to enter a building where employees of foreign consulates in Leningrad live. A statement which he intended to send to the West was found on him.
He was also charged with writing ‘slanderous documents’ and anonymous letters (an article by V. Viktorov, ‘The Lampoonist’, published in Leningradskaya Pravda of 29 June, states that there are 100 of these letters), and sending them to government offices and editorial offices of newspapers and journals, and with writing eight ‘anti-Soviet documents’ containing, according to the judgment, ‘demands to remove the CPSU from the government of the country and to abolish general military conscription and the State monopoly of foreign trade’.
At his trial Treskunov expressed repentance. The court sentenced him to five years imprisonment, suspended. Treskunov is 58. He is a veteran of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) and has been awarded orders and medals. In 1947 he was admitted to the Party (he was expelled prior to the trial). Treskunov is a technical engineer and now works as a grinding-machine operator.
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